After awhile the group Caim had followed stopped and the person who had noticed the clue on the ad started speaking with the one leading group. Caim got closer to listen to the conversation. It became clear that the whole group as well as himself had got caught in a trap. two others emerged from behind the man explaining how he and his partners wanted revenge.'Dammit, i can't believe i fell into a trap made by a couple of simpleminded morons'As he watched one of the men climbed up halfway up the wall that Caim was looking over. Caim jumped back so as to not be seen and realized in the same instant the man was not normal but instead centipede-like. He made his way back behind the three men, or whatever they were, jumped down to the ground and drew one of his pistols. Caim took aim at the man who had been leading the group and almost fired but stopped an instant before pulling the trigger. 'Shit, He still has the ad with the clue' He noticed as the cloaked man attacked the same man he'd taken aim at. 'Dammit!' Caim thought as he put his gun away and positioned himself behind the man getting ready to tackle and flip him when he was pushed back, because he knew, very well, that the cloaked man would push him back.

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Roy placed his paper bag on the ground and picked out an apple. He took a big bite out of the crimson red apple, chewing it slowly so he could fully enjoy the taste. A fresh apple's aroma, there wasn't anything better except for Roy's instincts being right on the money. He was right to believe that man was an interesting subject, didn't know how he would become interesting, but still. It was surpising and not surprising, the Lunatic Inc, from what he has gathered has done all sorts of things, so its not to be expected that some who were burned by the company to not get revenge in some manner. “ A mere sample to the things that will come.” Roy said out loud before he takes another bite. Roy then reachs into his bag again and pulls out his bottle of wine. Unless something happens, there was no reason for him to fight. Mister Crazy Eyes, formerly Mister Sunglasses, was taken off by a few gentlemen, Mister Acid in the sweats, was surrounded more academy looking girls, and Mister Strange Centipede Monster, was being handled by Rei and some other fellow. “ Mister Green, now is the time to steal the sheet!” He shouted.

That's was pretty much all he figured he could do in this moment, a reminder. Possibly the old man do could do something to snatch away the important document, Roy figured. If he could, Roy would do it, but considering his own abilities, he knew he would be a poor choice to steal the sheet. Roy takes another juicy bite of the red apple, the merchant at the apple stand was right, these apples were the best he ever tasted.

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"Fate smiles on the strange. So its a good thing, I'm the strangest of all." - William Livingstone, Cirque de la Nuit

It all started with a feeling, Charles didn’t think anything of it, actually he forgot about it soon after experiencing the feeling. It wasn’t a big deal to him…at the time. But after some time of walking he began to feel something was amiss. It shouldn’t take this long to navigate a city. The young boy confirmed his suspicions, the child was smart enough to mark his location, and it turns out they had been tricked. The man in the sunglasses wasn’t helping them at all! Charles glared at the pale-faced man. He had been tricked! Charles then remembered the strange feeling he had experienced earlier, thanks to the pale man’s mention of “dimensional distortion”. ”Fuck!” he swore, for he knew that this guy had cornered them, and they had fallen for it. It was going to be a lot harder to teleport now. ’Knew I should’ve taken a shortcut’ he thought. This was going to be the last time he went with a majority, that’s for sure.

And to make things worse, the pale guy had friends. ’Oh this just keeps getting better and better.’ One of the cyborg’s buddies was a rather nasty looking centipede, while the other…well, Charles wasn’t really sure what it was. They all wanted revenge or something, Charles really couldn’t care less. Right now the entire thing was turning into some kind of joke. ’Idiots’ As everybody charged at the threesome, Charles lingered behind. He felt no need to attack at once, he was getting to old for that stuff, let the kiddies handle it. He would rather think things through, find a weakness, and then attack. Luckily, the young man before had come up with a pretty good idea. He nodded to the young man; it wasn’t like he had anything better to do. With the energy balls all over the place and the individual battles going on he couldn’t just run up to the cyborg and grab the ad, and he didn’t trust the dimensions at the moment. He supposed he could telekinetically grab the paper, but there was the danger of ripping it. The teleporter let out a sigh, he had a feeling he had no choice. ’This is going to hurt’ he thought in dismay. And with that he closed his eyes and attempted to teleport himself to where the cyborg was.

Needless to say, it did hurt. A lot. The tingling sensation Charles had earlier was only increased so much as to cause actual pain in the back of Charles head, searing pain. It was like all those things his trainers had warned him about back when he was in training. Not to mention his teleport was a little bit off, by at least ten feet. Luckily, Charles did not loss any limbs or organs, which was something he was actually afraid of. Determined to not let a bunch of idiots win this game, Charles lunged for the paper just as lizard boy pushed the cyborg. ”Sorry, but I’ll be taking this”, and before the cyborg could object he telekinetically sent the ad over to Roy. What? You expected Charles to try teleportation again? In a dimensional distortion? Charles would rather die than risk something like that twice. And besides, he had no use for it, he already wrote down the coordinates. He was just thinking about what would happen if the cyborg ended up escaping. The young man would probably handle the ad better than him anyways, and Charles could take a few hits from the cyborg if he felt compelled to attack him.

There was a huge commotion and the entire group fell into chaos as three poorly made monstrosities came out of nowhere and attacked. They were harsh-looking but nothing like what Ein had seen in his past. At least everyone had the decency to fight back against these creatures that seemed to speak perfectly well.

Ein stood back and did nothing but flick his wrists. Three large gates issued out, opening like a gaping maw, waiting to eat anything that went inside and digest it for eternity. Ein's gates served several purposes and one of them was the use of a dimensional prison, forever interning the people inside in a frozen stasis until Ein said so. Many do not survive being inside this dimensional space. Those who do, end up getting lost forever in the dense labyrinthine.

"Toss those three in there when your done. I'll make sure they stay there for a while" Ein told the group. "And make sure you don't fall into them while you guys are doing that...its hard getting out."

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Arillo followed the pale skinned man just as everyone else was doing, not really paying attention to his surroundings, when the pale skinned man started to rip off the skin around his hands and a centipede man and whatever the third guy was appeared and started attacking them. Arillo grimaced at the short guy and the centipede guy. "Mutant scum," he said, reaching for his sword and pistol, "I didn't travel through the warp for three weeks just to get killed by mutants. Now you shall know the wrath of those who live on Fenris." and he went charging at the pale skinned man, firing his pistol at above the pale skinned man and to his left and right, trying to force him into the paths of the other bullets.

Milan narrowed his eyes as he saw the centipede thing attacking Max, the demon and the robot and he knew he had to do something. He dropped his bag to the ground and clenched his fists, blades popping out from his gloves. I can’t do nothing while everyone else is trying to defeat these creature, I’ll just have to do my best, Milan thought as he ran toward the centipede and tried to cut through its hard shell. It wasn’t working and Milan had no idea what to do. Maybe the eyes, he thought while looking up at the huge monster, waiting to see what its next attack would be.

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Vergil's quick thinking saved him from serious acid burns as the cloud past harmlessly under him. However, Enine failed to react fast enough, getting some rather severe burns as the acid dissolved his sleeve and began doing the same to his arm.The billowing cloud of Acid also dissolved Vergil's bullet before it could reach the creature, before it began dissipating.During this time, As Enine's demons attacked the mutant acidic spawn of humpty-dumpty, they found their blades passing through it cleanly, and shallow, as if through slick wet putty. The Creature laughed, a sound that closely resembled dry heaving, as the shallow wounds inflicted slowly began to close up with a sizzling noise. It didnt appear plain physical damage would do much to this one, or at least not of the cutting variety.

As the blasts from the Centipede-man's cannon descended on the alley, Max's whirlwind deflected most of the shots headed his way, though it unfortunately deflected a fair number towards his allies, so they were now in danger of being hit from 2 directions. The remainder of the deflected blasts hit the ground around the group, sending up small bursts of dust and dangerous concrete shrapnel. Luckily, Ein's Gateways ate a good number more of the blasts, though there were still a fair number that were in danger of hitting him, Arillo, Roy, and Milan.

As for the centipede man himself, he grinned as Vergils bullets bounced harmlessly off its hard shell, but began giving off a truly ear-splitting screech when one of Max's fireballs hit it, as it began twisting it's body here and there with surprising dexterity in order to avoid his aim. it Screeched again, likely inflicting pain on the ears of anyone nearby as Rei's fire allowed her dagger to pierce it's shell. Without Warning, it swung it's upper body down to the ground, using the vestigial spines on it's sides to propel itself with the speed of a striking snake,also weaving through the group like one as it made it's way behind them. Standing up again once it was out of range, it unslung it's weapon again and took aim.

However, Things only started getting REALLY weird when Charles teleported.The pain he should have felt when teleporting was oddly lessened, like he was feeling a version of it as described by someone else. Even odder was, From the point he teleported and where he appeared, What could only be described as a ripple came into being, spreading out from that point. for a moment, it seemed merely odd, but where the ripple touched their enemies, they simply ceased to exist, like an image blocked from view, only the rest of the world appeared as normal and unobstructed. Similar ripples, though smaller and shorter in range were noticeable coming from Ein's Gateways. besides the enemies, where the ripples touched anything they had caused, or altered, those also disappeared momentarily, such as the craters let by the cannons blasts. Where the ripple touched Enine's burned arm, it momentarily appeared completely normal, sleeve and all, and the pain dulled, though it didnt leave entirely.What was perhaps even more bizarre was that the enemies didnt appear to notice any of it at all, and continued doing whatever it was they were doing, as if they couldn't even see it.

Kallis Watched this with bewilderment, as the familiar Black mist coalesced at into a solid blade on the hilt. " What the Hell Was that?!" He called out To Charles. "Has That ever happened before?" Even with his mediocre understanding, he was fairly sure this shouldnt happen when teleporting, even in a distortion. Even then it didnt explain the thugs reactions. Whatever Charles answer was, Kallis was sure something was still wrong here, and it wasnt a dimensional Distortion.

Enine faced let on a crazed smile as the acid began to eat into his arm.

"Pain. it's been a while since I've felt this, what a wonderful feeling.." He thought as he clutched his arm. Looking at the wound he began to laugh, that was all he could do.

He looked around at the trio, calmly ducking as an energy shot ricocheted off of one of his alley's action."I guess there's no use in-" Enine's brow furrowed at the sight of Charles teleporting. It sent a strange ripple in the air, and for a moment Enine thought, no he knew, that this fight was not as it appeared to be. Even a it passed over his arm, and the pain momentarily dissipated, he knew something was amiss. He hadn't thought he would need to use his "other" ability but after this, it was warrant a try. To think he had just given a small speech to something that did not even exist, the thought infuriated him; to be made a mockery of like this. Cold fury flowed through his veins, even as Enine's eye's turned the familiar shade of blood red. Although Enine had no idea what the cause was for the illusion, his ability did like to mess things, call it his own distortion, the distortion of reality, his power was no mere illusion, and hopefully it would cause something to break, hopefully the illusion, hopefully whatever was causing it.

"I apologize if there are any consequences to my allies, but it's worth a try. In fact, I'd suggest you'd all refrain from using magical abilities, unless you have one that could actually get us out of this mess." Enine said, still clutching his useless arm. As he did this, the sisters jumped back from the acid-man, in a protective formation around Enine. He didn't want them attacking just yet, not until he saw if his ability had done anything at all.

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Vergil jumped infront of Enine, and smiled. "Did someone order a magical ability that coudl get us out of here?" Vergil focused on the enemy, and smiled, imagining the whole group vanishing. Hopefully, they would fall for the illusion, and give them time to escape. "If this works, well, then we can escape. I've cast an illusion on them that we've dissapeared." Vergil drew Nelo Angelo, just incase they were able to break the illusion.

You think your evil? You want to see real evil? Then allow me to educate you...

In Roy's left hand tiny blocks of light blue and silver began to appear and a weapon started to form. He dropped the bottle of red wine and immediately grabbed a hold of the page, Charles sent to him. The blocks faded as the spear was fully constructed, with a squeeze, the spear head launched piercing a wall above him. As it connected, the cable started to reel in Roy up into the air, just in time to miss a blast. It hoisted him up to a near by balcony. He looked down from the balcony to bear witness the carnage.

Roy watched with wide eyes, he didn't catch it before, but Charle's teleportation stunt created a ripple. However, the ripple wasn't what was interesting, it was what the ripple's effect was doing in the environment, that was interesting. Roy dropped his spear and grabbed a hold of the balcony's rails as he couldn't his eyes. Craters caused by the Bug's attack in the walls and ground, disappeared and reappeared, wounds on his fellow applicants, fading and appearing, villains becoming thin air and solid again, something was definitely up, Roy figured. “ Something is amiss here. Is what is happening for real?” He questioned to himself as he observed the events.

“ If not, then the conclusion is this a form of illusion.” Roy stated as he said his thoughts out loud. He continued to watch from above and continued his thought process on the entire “ Therefore, if this is an illusion, a very powerful one, I might add, then I must conclude, this is another test, possibly to test our powers/abilities.” His eyes searched around the scene of disaster, his grip on the rail tighten. “ The real question if my theory is correct, is where is the director of this elaborate stage play?” He asked no one particular, still talking to himself.

“The director isn't among the rogue galley that much is for certain. “ He stated taking out a few of the suspects. “Hmmm, there is two possibilities to where the mysterious director is , One, He/She is among the applicants pretending to fight.” Roy said, he then glazed down upon the Dark Mist fellow from earlier, a good suspect, to have suspicions on, since he was walking with Mister Sunglasses and the dark mist could be a way to activate his illusion powers. “ Or two, he is somewhere in the area, merely watching his play like a real director.” He added. “Hmm, maybe a hint to where he/she is, might lie on his/her choice of battleground.” He stated “ An alleyway like this,would support the second possibility as looking down from the rooftops, would be a perfect place to watch the battle. “ He released his grip on the rail. Roy then split into two, as a mechanical being stepped out of his body, it was gold and crimson like blood with yellow glowing eyes. The words “ARM and DIM, Activated.” appeared on the lower right of his vision. The mechanical being grabbed a hold of the human Roy and started to climb up the building.

The mechanical being with one more step, leaped into the air and landed on top of the rooftop. He set down the Human Roy,and who immediately to started to look around the roof tops The metallic being that came out of Roy walked over to the nearest ledge closet to the battlefield with the others.“ MISTER GREEN! USE YOUR TELEPORT!” The metallic man shouted at the top of his volume. “ WE MUST FIND THE ILLUSIONIST THAT IS DECEIVING US !” He continued "TRY VARIOUS AREAS! THIS IS A TEST AFTERALL!" The metal man's voice was very similar to Roy's.

The gold and crimson metallic man, then looked towards Rei's direction and barked orders at her too "REI, CEASE COMBAT FUNCTIONS IMMEDIATELY AND USE YOURS SCANNERS ON THE AREA! I NEED ANOTHER SET OF EYES!" He remembered that Rei's name from her introduction prior to this and recalling her scanning power, he figured he needed all of his allies to pull this off.

"Fate smiles on the strange. So its a good thing, I'm the strangest of all." - William Livingstone, Cirque de la Nuit

Something was wrong the moment Charles noticed he didn’t feel much pain as he should have, which didn’t make sense. If this was really a dimensional distortion field he should’ve been in much more pain. What could have lessened the pain? And then, there were the ripples. It was like bits and parts were this reality was blotted out like they didn’t exist. Very peculiar. There shouldn’t be any ripple at all, teleportation wasn’t technically a reality warping ability after all. Charles shook his head as the youngster who had followed the cyborg first asked him if something like this before. ”Nope, never” he answered, ”In fact, it’s nearly impossible. Whatever it was, this can’t be a dimensional distortion. Otherwise I would be in a lot more pain.” But if it wasn’t a dimensional distortion, what was it?

“ MISTER GREEN! USE YOUR TELEPORT! WE MUST FIND THE ILLUSIONIST THAT IS DECEIVING US!”

Well, there was his answer, it was an illusion. If anyone could screw up his perception of reality, it was an illusionist. ’And people wonder why I can’t trust them.’ Charles was more than happy to create more ripples. He wanted to give the lying brat a piece of his mind. Lying to everyone else was good and all but lying to him? Well, that was just asking for trouble. ’On the bright side, I don’t have to worry about having a massive headache in the morning.’ Still, he couldn’t pretend the mechanical being didn’t strike him as strange. What was with its voice? It sounded almost like the young man. Meanwhile the young man himself was on a nearby ledge, just staring at the roofs of the buildings that created the alleyway. Charles decided he was going to question that one later, right now he had a job to do. But if this sort of stuff kept on happening, he knew there was going to be no use in questioning anything anymore. So, with no further ado, Charles began randomly teleporting himself at equally random locations. It was like rolling dice, only within a concentrated area. The only thing that remained on Charles’ mind at the moment was to stay within the concentrated area, and not linger too far. Who knew what would’ve happened, if his mind lingered. Charles made sure to teleport in awhile so that the spots he teleported to will, if the concentrated area were a piece of blank white paper, would be able to be connected as to form a polygon. When he felt he had teleported, enough (he did it around five times), Charles returned to his original starting point, feeling slightly tired. Teleporting took a lot of energy after all. Wiping his brow, Charles said, ”That have better worked.”

~.x.x.x.~Location:Alley Way; Orders are orders.~.x.x.x.~Rei grinned as she pierced the shell with the flame dagger, the fire quickly going out. She flipped the dagger and turned to the centipede, about to attack again when she heard Roy's voice.

"REI, CEASE COMBAT FUNCTIONS IMMEDIATELY AND USE YOURS SCANNERS ON THE AREA! I NEED ANOTHER SET OF EYES!"

Out of habit, Rei immediately stopped what she was planning, looking up at the metal Roy with a raised eyebrow, but nodded. "Roger!" She said, then looked around to find a place outside of combat, fighting and scanning would be difficult. She decided to scale the walls by means of uneven bricks, window ledges, and other cracks and crevices to help her onto a sturdy window a few floors up.

She took notes on every detail her scanners could pick up, what she was looking for she didn't know, but when she found what she was looking for, she was sure that she would know.

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Max narrowed his eyes at the centipede man's movements. "Alright, switch out, guys! Dryad, give me some claws!" Grass began to grow on his hands... then began to change. In a moment he had claws but they were warped, purplish, and covered in spines. "Dryad, was that you?" "No, something is interfering with my powers." Max shrugged and launched himself forward. His new claw shot forward, hit the centipede man... and disintegrated, leaving only a few flakes of dust and a unprotected Max behind.

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Kallis gritted his teeth as he prepared to sprint off after the cyborg who was finally diving into the fray while dodging bullets from an applicant, while two others fought to get at him, one spewing a fountain of flame while another tried to stop him, surprisingly enough. Before he could go more then a few steps though, Enine activated his ability and things got screwy.While Rei, Roy, and the other wore themselves out searching for the mystery puppeteer, Enine's interference was causing the illusory reality around them to spaz out, stretching and skewing and and warping in a way that made Kallis want to vomit."Oh, Thats enough of that." said an unfamiliar voice. Before Kallis could determine the source, the world froze. The three thugs, stood immobile as statues, and even the clouds of debris were hanging in mid-air, as if time had stopped for everything in the alley except the applicants. After a second, the image half faded, allowing them to see the true landscape underneath the illusion, admittedly not much different then the illusion landscape, sans freakish killers. Then the false image began to be drawn to a point on one of the alley walls, folding and pinching like a sheet being sucked into a vacuum. When it was finally gone, at the point where it disappeared was a Box-like contraption Along with all the wounds and pain any of the applicants might have suffered, stuck to the wall.Next to The contraption was a stranger, alanky man apparently in his mid-twenties. He was wearing some kind of brown padded vest, similar but slightly more covering then a flak jacket, as well as some kind of tight ankle length black pants over which he worse similar padding to the vest. Two long curved daggers could be seen in holster like sheaths on each side of his waist, within easiy reach of his hands, whose fingers seemed slightly longer then normal. His hair was short and swept forward, an auburn brown and his skin had an odd reddish brown tint to it. Perhaps oddest was a pair of what appeared to be modified goggles, with pitch black lenses, firmly over his eyes, obscuring them from view.

The man turned to the applicants as he tugged the device off the wall and gestured to it. "This is still a bit experimental, so I have no idea what could have happened if you had continued messing with your powers like that," he said in a slow, clear voice." Still, while it lasted, you were doing fairly well, considering. Though, I have to admit I didn't expect so many to make it through, or so quickly I guess once the Virtual Reality veil started shorting out that was a forgone conclusion. Everything else was well within my planned parameters though." He lifted his head, a bit as if just remembering they were there and turned to face them more directly."Sorry, Im Arc Zoandeus, A member of Lunatic Inc, though you might have heard of me as 'Spider', since that's what everyone calls me. I am, or was, in charge of this part of the screening process, and im happy and a little surprised to say you've all passed."

Kallis relaxed a bit, letting out a long breath as he lowered the dark sword. THIS man he had heard of, and he certainly fit the description of the so called: " Cortex Trapper"."Maybe now were finally getting somewhere.." he said, leaning tiredly against a wall. he didnt think he could take anymore twists.

“ Really? That's how it ends.” The mechanical man complained as he walked away, stepping into human form Roy. He shook his head, once he was back into his shell. Roy even kicked the floor of the rooftop. All that effort was for nothing and this was the end result of all this. "Lame !" He shouted as Roy walked over to the entrance of the rooftop. He showed off more than he wanted to reveal.

Eventually Roy found his way down from the rooftop. The spider,Arc Zoandeus, as he addressed himself, at least he had good news to share after he had explained what had happened here. " Wonderful, I suppose." He said as he strolled over to his bag of groceries. He sounded like any teenager would, when all the fun was gone. "So what's the next part?" Roy questioned as he picked up his paper bag. " And what are you in charge of now?" He asked Spider as he questioned further.

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"Fate smiles on the strange. So its a good thing, I'm the strangest of all." - William Livingstone, Cirque de la Nuit

Really? Milan said aloud, I don’t know whether to be happy I passed or ashamed I go tricked. Maybe they’ll teach us how to see through something like that. As a quick second thought, Milan checked the man’s Intent. It seemed benevolent, for now, but in a moment he could be ordered to kill them all, so Milan decided to use his Intent more often, even through the headaches they gave him.

"I hope not, cause then MY illusions would be useless." Vergil smiled as the truth was revealed. He had a feeling something was amiss, and now he knew why. Opening Bloody Rose's chamber, he replaced the two bullets he had used, and placed it at his side. "So, that was an interesting test."

You think your evil? You want to see real evil? Then allow me to educate you...

~.x.x.x.~Location:Alley Way; Spider man~.~.x.x.x.~Rei raised an eyebrow and looked at the new male, Spider, with a skeptical glance. She ignored the scanner when she looked at the man, then jumped down onto the ground and leaned against a wall. "Are we done with these tests yet? Or are there still more to come?" She asked, hiding her slight annoyance.

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Arillo cursed as the pale-skinned man dodged his shots and was about to slice through him when everything except him and the other applicants was sucked into a little box which a man named Spider picked it up. “I think I’ve heard of you before but I can’t remember where. Anyways I’m with them,” Arillo said as he pointed to Roy and Rei, “Are there going to be any more test or can we finally move on?”

{Il Thrane, terribly sorry I've been gone, I seem to have missed quite a bit}

Il Thrane had been following the group quietly, keeping to the shadows and keeping a wary eye on her still following enterage. Suddenly, Kallis stopped and began to speak to the man next to him. It seemed the man had been leading them in circles, as the younger one pointed out. She reached out with her mind to find the trickster's motives, only to find that there was no mind or soul coenciding with the appearant body, the same applied to the new minions that had come from the shadows. 'Lies of reality!' she almost screamed, yet held her own council. Instead, she retreated further into the shadows and, quite forcibly, ordered her party members to do the same through thought. 'Let the fools fight falsehoods, do not intervine.' she told them. As the device was turned off, a man stood before them, offering an explaination and congadulation on passing the trial.

'Samus. That's the only name you'll hear. Samus. It means the end and the death. Samus. I am Samus. Samus is all around you. Samus is the man beside you. Samus will gnaw upon your bones. Look out! Samus is here.' - Horus Rising by Dan Abnett

I can see clearly now the rain is gone! I can see all obsta-- *runs into a pole*

"Neat trick you had there." Enine said, patting his arm down even though he had no need to.With a wave of his hand all four sisters disappeared, and appearing in their place, floating at eye level, were 4 stakes.

Opening his jacket the stakes floated smoothly to be hidden in his coat. He then casually closed it and looked up at this new guy, the Lunatic Inc. screener, and apparently everyone had passed. Listening to the man speak Enine remembered he still needed to deactivate his other ability, it never really tolled much on him, he supposed the skill may feed of of some other energy not present, perhaps it was whatever energy the other's used, perhaps not. But for now he would stop, for the fighting was over. His eyes then turned to their normal shade of green.

"It was more luck, then skill that everyone passed." Enine said offering up a hand while holding a half of his coat. His normal smile was gone, instead replaced by a look that could only be described as neutral. He stepped back a bit letting everyone get their opinions in, looking to the side he spotted the Farseer. A smile broke out across his face, not a good smile, but more a one felt by someone who knew something. But he broke off eye-contact, and calmly put his hands behind his back, his previous expression on his face.

As the applicants clamored for what was next, Spider addressed their concerns in turn."Now? Well, I was supposed to come up with a series of obstacles to challenge you mentally while also separating out anyone unsuitable and gauging your general abilities, glad you liked them buy the way." he added the last part with the hint of a smile." Not to be rude, but we really didn't need anyone not up to the task making it past this point, and we really didn't want the responsibility if they had. Anyway, Now, I guess my job is to be little more then a a glorified guide and lead you back to base. once were there, I think they'll let you rest a little, then after that, there will probably be one more test, which will likely be a bit more...practical then the ones I came up with. Speaking of which..." he said, Turning his head this way and that as if looking for someone."Zanza!" he called out. Within a second of him calling the name, A boy, no older then 14, appeared out of thin air right besides him."WHAT?" the Boy demanded in an annoyed voice. He looked unusually bored for a boy his age, although aside from that, most of his expression was and body language was obscured by the large brown sweater jacket he was wearing, whose hood was blocking out most of his face.

Spider flinched imperceptibly at the sudden appearance, but gave no other sign of surprise, so most of the applicants wouldn't even notice. " I wanted you to let the others know im on my way back with the applicants..." He said, slight frown on his face. "Whatever." said the boy, before disappearing again.There was no movement, or sense of the air being disturbed, so I didnt appear to be teleportation, unless he was really really good at it...

Spider stared at the spot where Zanzus had disappeared from for a second before turning back to the applicants" Well then... One of you is a teleporter correct? A Mr....Charles"? He asked, looking around.

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The teleporter was not expecting things to work so quickly, the man in green stood in one spot surveying his surroundings as it sort of melted around him. He was looking for some sign of the so-called illusionist, only to find there was no illusionist at all! This was all a test! Luckily, the stranger behind the entire test was a member of Lunatic Inc. Otherwise he would be a very angry person. Instead, he simply stood in one spot looking pretty annoyed, and sort of glad it was all over. Twist after twist, he could only handle so much. ’I sure hope this won’t be a reoccurring thing’ he thought as everyone voiced the same concerns. He could only sigh as the man answered everyone’s questions. It seems like this new job was full of them, it was just like high school all over again, only without the undead monsters. He supposed he had no choice but play their game, things might be interesting. And who knows? Maybe they could bring back some joy in this old man’s life.

The teleporter frowned a bit when a very rude boy appeared and disappeared with no sign of respect. That was part of the reason he didn’t think kids belonged in such a business, he had almost felt sorry for the man called “Spider”. No adult deserved that kind of rudeness, ’Kids these days’ he thought, shaking his head sadly. When Spider asked for them, Charles looked up, raising his hand slightly in the process. ”That would be me” he simply said, stepping to the front of the group.

Scael dug his feet into the ground to bring himself to a stop as the enemies disappeared. His confusion lasted for only a few seconds, until he noticed another fellow. He introduced himself as Arc Zoandeus -- he'd heard that name somewhere, something about "Animal King?" -- AKA Spider, and gave them a full explanation. He listened to the end, and blinked in confusion. "Pardon me," he hissed, forgetting to mask it, "but did you just say that you... were... in charge of testing the applicants? As in, you're not anymore? If so, then what are you doing here?" Through the wraps around his face, it couldn't be told whether he was upset or just curious, and the implacable scathing bite in his tone didn't help.

Vergil smiled as Scael made an outburst. Things were getting a little heated. And that meant things would soon be getting fun. Vergil crossed his arms, and looked at Spider. "Tell me Spider...if you are not indeed the current head of testing the applicants, then who is? Not that I'm conplaining. The test was quite fun actually." Vergil smil widened a bit, a cold chill starting to form around him.

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